I grew up in a town with a mountain in the middle of it. Soldiers were carved into the front of it, and almost every summer night fireworks would go off right behind it as people watched from the grass below. Days were calm, and people were nice. My name is Theresa O. Kwabbi, the middle initial belonging to the always butchered name Otwiwa. I was born here, and I’ve lived here for eighteen years. My parents were born in Accra and Akropong, Ghana, a country in West Africa. I have a sister older than me by three years. She and my parents moved to this town before I was born, but she said she likes it better here. But now that we are both older, we don’t know what to believe. The truth is, the mountain the middle of our neighborhood is Stone Mountain, and confederate soldiers are carved into the face of it. The laser shows depict them to put down their swords in surrender nearing the end of the Civil War. People are still nice we believe, but some are still stuck in much older ways. Now, neither of us live there full time, but I remember how things used to be.
I grew up in a town with a mountain in the middle of it. Soldiers were carved into the front of it, and almost every summer night fireworks would go off right behind it as people watched from the grass below. Days were calm, and people were nice. My name is Theresa O. Kwabbi, the middle initial belonging to the always butchered name Otwiwa. I was born here, and I’ve lived here for eighteen years. My parents were born in Accra and Akropong, Ghana, a country in West Africa. I have a sister older than me by three years. She and my parents moved to this town before I was born, but she said she likes it better here. But now that we are both older, we don’t know what to believe. The truth is, the mountain the middle of our neighborhood is Stone Mountain, and confederate soldiers are carved into the face of it. The laser shows depict them to put down their swords in surrender nearing the end of the Civil War. People are still nice we believe, but some are still stuck in much older ways. Now, neither of us live there full time, but I remember how things used to be.